Landmark Africa archaeological
Laetoli
3.7 million years ago
Tanzanian site preserving 3.7-million-year-old hominid footprints in volcanic ash, the oldest evidence of upright bipedal walking
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3.7 million years ago — older than the timeline's axis, which begins at 9000 BCE. Drawn to the same scale as the rest of the canvas, everything since would be a single pixel, so Laetoli sits on the deep-time shelf instead.
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- LaetoliFidelis T Masao and colleagues · CC BY 4.0
